Tag: Success

Success can be all about who you know, not what you know. The Australian Institute of Management offers some Do’s and Don’ts of networking.

Mark Bouris shares six tips on how to set and achieve goals to make your small business a success.

Jack Delosa speaks with Creel Price about how he built and sold a business for $109m. Creel Price is the high octane adventurer at the forefront of what he now calls the “entreprenaissance”.

kikki.K, the ‘fashion stationary’ retailer established by Swedish born Australian entrepreneur Kristina Karlsson 10 years ago in Melbourne will open in Singapore’s Changi Airport next month.

South Australia’s Top 100 SA Companies Index has been released, showing aggregate revenue of $21.03 billion dollars this year for the state’s top 100 companies, versus $20.62b in 2009 and $22.6b in 2008.

More often than not, it is a combination of five key fear factors that frightens people into balking at the notion of a small enterprise or franchise business, according to one of the country’s leading franchise authorities.

This month, Australian photobook printing company Momento is celebrating its 6th birthday and to commensurate the occasion, the team is giving away more than $1 million worth of credits to new and existing customers.

Kristina Karlsson, the Melbourne based founder of Swedish fashion stationery business kikki.K was last night named winner of the 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Southern Region – Product.

Attending last week’s Telstra Business Awards, I was again struck by how many inspiring businesses there are in this country – and how many ordinary, hard-working Australians have followed their passion to create their own quiet success story.

So how do you spot a business failure? My answer to this is simple: “Look for the bad.”